Book record
An Invitation For Me To Think
Eugene Ostashevsky
Translated from Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich
An Invitation For Me To Think, by Eugene Ostashevsky, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, published by Nyrb Poets in 2013. It is a Russian-American collection where philosophical play and linguistic oddity become part of the poem's engine. Ostashevsky's work tends to make thought feel physical, comic, and unstable, as though the mind were arguing with a toy it cannot put down. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved or reduced to context before it can begin working. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Russia; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- NYRB Poets
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781590176306